What will be the polling error in 2024 US presidential elections?
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100%7%
(0% - 1%) in favor of Republicans
10%
4% or more in favor of Democrats
12%
[3% - 4%) in favor of Democrats
16%
[2% - 3%) in favor of Democrats
19%
[1% - 2%) in favor of Democrats
22%
[0% - 1%) in favor of Democrats
6%
[1% - 2%) in favor of Republicans
3%
[2% - 3%) in favor of Republicans
3%
[3% - 4%) in favor of Republicans
1.5%
4% or more in favor of Republicans

This market is looking to predict polling error leading up to the presidential election between Democratic and Republican candidates.

It will resolve to the interval that includes the polling error. The error will be computed as difference between margin of Democrats (D vote share - R vote share) in the election minus margin of Democrats in polls. If the result is negative it is in favor of Republicans, if it's positive it is in favor of Democrats.

For example if Democrats are polling up 3 points (margin +3), but lose the election by 2 (margin -2), the result is -5 (-2 - (+3)) and thus it will resolved to "4% or more in favor of Republicans", because the result was negative so Republican result in the election was better than their result in the polls.

Polling data will be based on RCP (https://www.realclearpolling.com/) average for the presidential election on 4th of November 2024. Election data will be based on the Wikipedia page for the election.

In the interval [3% - 4%), 3% is included, but 4% is not included in the interval.

Polling in previous elections: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polling_for_United_States_presidential_elections

2020: 2.55% in favor of Republicans

2016: 1.91% in favor of Republicans

2012: 2.87% in favor of Democrats

2008: 3.73% in favor of Republicans

2004: 2.46% in favor of Republicans

2000: 2.51% in favor of Democrats

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RCP polling was +0.8 in favor of Republicans and they won by 1.5% (with 99% of votes counted). So the error is 0.7 in favor of Republicans => (0% - 1%) in favor of Republicans

As a heads up for traders in this market, I made a similar but different market here (using Nate Silver’s polling average instead of RCP) if anyone wishes to trade/arbitrage: https://manifold.markets/WilliamEden/what-will-the-polling-miss-be-for-t

bought Ṁ5 YES

"In the interval [3% - 4%), 3% is included, but 4% is not included in the interval."

I assume this applies to all brackets (they are really x to x.9)?

Yea, that's just an example of the syntax. It's a semi-closed interval (so anything between 3 and 4, except 4)

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